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Well, I never made it to a meeting today but that's OK. We have a new toy; a digital TV converter so we can watch broadcast television.

It has been hard on Lisa not having any TV. Our satellite Internet service works well, but is too slow to watch TV shows online. The WiFi hotspot that we bought last fall is fast, but it has a data limit and gets expensive real fast if you use more than that limit.

So, for about $50, we got a little box that lets us get two channels. We really can't expect to get more than three, even with an outside antenna. But it is a one-time expense, unlike cable or satellite TV, and the picture quality is outstanding. So far tonight we've the local & national news, Jeopardy and what must be the adult version of Family Feud.

"Name something that you shouldn't be doing in church." The number one answer, from a poll of the studio audience: "Survey says? 'Kissing/Procreating'" Whaaaaa??? Richard Dawson may have kissed everything in a skirt, but I don't remember "procreating" coming up in the surveys back in the Stone Age when I used to watch Feud.

And come on - are we to believe that anybody actually said "procreating"? I can think of a number of euphemisms that could be equated with that ... ahem ... activity; I suppose they boiled them all down to something less offensive. But I was surprised when somebody gave an especially lame answer and the host, failing in his attempt to talk the guy out of it, looked at the board and said, "let's see who the hell else said something that ridiculous." Wow. Harsh, dude. I'll admit that the fellow in question reliably gave lousy answers, but come on.

Oh well. We're all happy now. The pharmacy called not too long after my last (bitchy) post to say that Lisa's meds were ready. We're home, we're snug, we don't need to go anywhere for a couple of days and we have ABC to keep us entertained.